About this episode
In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes do a 2019 year in review — the most popular Syntax episodes, what they learned, some personal updates, plans for next year, and more! Prismic - Sponsor Prismic is a Headless CMS that makes it easy to build website pages as a set of components. Break pages into sections of components using React, Vue, or whatever you like. Make corresponding Slices in Prismic. Start building pages dynamically in minutes. Get started at prismic.io/syntax . Freshbooks - Sponsor Get a 30 day free trial of Freshbooks at freshbooks.com/syntax and put SYNTAX in the “How did you hear about us?” section. Show Notes 1:40 - Plans for 2020 Syntax Live March 2019 Plans for 2020 Twitter has done really well for @syntaxfm Community feels great 9:20 - Top 10 Syntax episodes of 2019 Syntax162: The Fundamentals - JS Syntax120: Gatsby vs Next Syntax158: The Fundamentals - HTML + CSS Syntax126: Bootcamps vs School vs Self-Learning Syntax138: What’s New in Web Development Syntax130: The VueJS Show (Scott teaches Wes) Syntax146: CSS the Cool Parts Syntax174: How to Build an API Syntax154: SVGs with Sara Soueidan Syntax106: A Look Forward to 2019 25:17 - Personal stuff Scott Brooklyn Tolinksi 2019 was really tough for me Level Up courses for 12 months Huge changes to my production values and office Huge changes to LUT codebase (React hooks, Typescript, Next.js, Mongoose) Wes New Baby in June / 3 months Paternity Leave Bought a cottage Hardest course to make was Beginner JS — it was a slog, hard to stay motivated at times, with 80 hours of recording alone Course Platform re-write (Next.js) 39:17 - Stuff we learned Scott Better speaker Lots of TypeScript Better debugging Hooks Svelte General improvement in JS writing and programming skills Wes Really good at Vanilla.js DOM API React Hooks Suspense Audio Visualization Shape Detection API - Faces, Barcodes, Text Headless CMS: Prismic, Sanity, WordPress GraphQL, Keystone.js, Hasura Very good understanding of the nitty gritty of JS (closures, objects, this, new keyword, classes, etc.) Links Reactathon freeCodeCamp Podcast CSS Houdini Syntax109: Hasty Treat - CSS Grid Level 2 aka Subgrid Syntax092: React Hooks Dev Mugs TypeScript Svelte Prismic Sanity WPGraphQL Keystone.js Hasura ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: The Dream Podcast Wes: Synology DiskStation DS918+ Shameless Plugs Scott: React & TypeScript For Everyone - Sign up for the year and save 25%! Wes: Beginner Javascript - Use the coupon code ‘Syntax’ for $10 off! Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets